By: Hughes S.B. No. 1603
(In the Senate - Filed March 3, 2023; March 16, 2023, read
first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
March 27, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 5,
Nays 0; March 27, 2023, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the decision of a court of appeals not to accept certain
interlocutory appeals.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 51.014, Civil Practice and Remedies
Code, is amended by adding Subsections (g) and (h) to read as
follows:
(g) If a court of appeals does not accept an appeal under
Subsection (f), the court shall state in its decision the specific
reason for finding that the appeal is not warranted under
Subsection (d).
(h) The supreme court may review a decision by a court of
appeals not to accept an appeal under Subsection (f) under an abuse
of discretion standard.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to an application for interlocutory appeal filed on or after the
effective date of this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
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